Leadership Principles Program Outline

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Over three evening sessions, you will look at your own personal leadership approach, as well as developing individuals and developing teams.

Session One: Leading Self

This session explores the attributes of a not-for-profit leader and allows participants to discover their own strengths and authentic leadership. This includes a look at personal accountability as well as the development of a personal vision, mission and set of values as a leader.

Assess your personal leadership strengths

Assess the importance of authenticity and personal accountability in your leadership approach.

Understand the impact of your behaviour on other people

Identify the value of personal vision, mission, and values as a leader and begin to develop your guiding principals

Session Two: Leading Individuals

Developing people is the number one role of any leader. This session focuses on your individual relationships and how you foster accountability and excellence in others. Participants will be able to execute new skills to move from “doing” to “leading” and motivate others to perform at their best.

Assess effective approaches to develop your people into top performers

Identify ways to motivate people by aligning their strengths to achieve the organization’s goals.

Session Three: Leading Teams

This session offers critical skills in building effective teams. Whether you’re working with employee or volunteer teams, you will explore your key role in integrating individual members into one high-performing team. The session will focus on understanding team dynamics and approaches to building and facilitating great teams.

Identify stages of team development in order to successfully move teams into the high performance stage

Assess behaviours of functional and dysfunctional teams

Apply different strategies to manage team conflict

Develop your leadership and team skills to put you on the right career path.

Facilitator

Jodi Rai

Jodi is currently a Senior Labour Relations Advisor with Fisheries & Oceans Canada, a role she has been in since 2014. She has a Masters of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University and Bachelor's of Commerce in Industrial Relations from UBC. Her area of expertise are labour relations, leadership, conflict resolution, training and development, recruitment, HR Planning and providing strategic advice to executive directors and managers. Jodi’s own learning journey has allowed her to obtain her CPHR designation via HRMA, to complete two certificates (Instructional Design and Advanced Facilitation) at the Justice Institute as well as her anticipated completion in Mediation in 2017. Born and raised in British Columbia she has a genuine vested interest her community. Her years of HR experience have taught her that personal and organizational development can result in not only insightful committed managers and employees, but also informed and conscientious citizens.